Legitimation The Aspects of Postmodernism in the Settings
her knee-length hair. She has the bewildered look of a sea creature whom the tides have stranded.
Ireland is a place where Bhave and Kusum express their grief. Besides, a bay in Ireland here is a place where the accident happens. This place pictures
the condition of people memorizing t heir families who had died. „A bay in
Ireland‟ here as an object that induces feeling of grief of Kusum. It is because she memorizes her family who lost in the flight bombing in this place. It is
because „a‟ bay express the idea of „the‟ bay, hence, it will be a sublime. In this case, Dr. Ranganathan, who lost his huge family, also expresses his
feeling through the pink roses he brings. The pink roses reminds him to his wife who loves pink roses. When his wife is still alive, the pink roses he
brings to her is to show his love. Mukherjee‟s TMoG 1988: 186 said that
“My wife loved pink roses. Every Friday I had to bring a bunch home. I used to say, Why? After twenty odd years of marriage you‟re still needing
proof positive of my love?” He has identified his wife and three of his children. Then others from the Montreal, the lucky ones, intact families
with no survivors. Thus, when his wife died, he comes to the bay to bring the pink roses to
show his love and grief of losing his wife. Besides, he also shows his grief to somebody‟s died. In this case, the sublime is shown by „squashed roses‟
picturing the idea of „the‟ roses. Mukherjee 1988: 186 said that “Dr. Ranganathan whips the pockets of his suit jacket inside out. Squashed roses,
in darkening shades of pink, float on the water. He tore the roses off creepers in somebody‟s garden.” The quote shows that roses as an object to express
people‟s feelings. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Another case that shows sublime is when Bhave comes to a temple in a tiny Himalayan village to workship. She feels her husband comes to her to
support. Mukherjee‟s TMoG 1988: 190 said that
Then, on the third day of the sixth month into this odyssey, in an abandoned temple in a tiny Himalayan village, as I make my offering of
flowers and sweetness to the god of a tribe of animists, my husband descends to me. He is squatting next to a scrawny sadhu in moth-eaten
robes. Vikram wears the vanilla suit he wore the last time I hugged him. The sadhu toses petals on a butter-fed flame, reciting Sanskrit mantras
and sweeps his face of flies. My husband takes my hands in his.
You’re beautiful, he starts. Then, What are you doing? Shall I saty? I ask. He only smiles, but already the image is fading. You
must finish alone what we started together. No seaweed wreathes his mouth. He speaks too fast just as he used to when we were an envied
family in our pink spilt-level. He is gone.
It means what Bhave feels that her husband is coming, it comes from her mind. It is because the condition of Bhave is in a grief and she wants to see
her husband and sons. As the result, she can feel the arrival of her husband even another people around her do not feel as she feels.
In the end of the story, Bhave attempts to show the sublime through the place where she begins her new life and plans in the future.
Mukherjee‟s TMoG 1988: 196-198 said that
Then I stood in the path looking north to Queen‟s Park and west to the university, I heard the voices of my family one last time. Your time has
come, they said. Go, be brave. I do not know where this voyage I have begun will end. I do not know
which direction I will take. I dropped the package on a park bench and started walking.
It expresses her feelings of fear to face the future with the new plan. She also still confuse to take which way she has to choose to begin her new life.
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